EASY Art for Kids: Draw & Paint 15 Aquatic Animal Cartoons!

Draw a cartoon gray whale in the ocean with bold black lines using oil pastel or crayon, shaping the body, tail, mouth, eye, and waves.

Learn to draw a mermaid cat by forming the face with straight and curved lines, adding eyes, nose, whiskers, then shaping a scaled tail and water swirls.

Paint the background with a lighter blue by adding water, then deepen the tone with pink for darker shades. Watch or start your own painting, and see you next time.

Gather supplies for this jellyfish drawing and watercolor project for kids—watercolor paper, paints, brushes, clean water, a paper towel, white and black crayons, optional salt, and a workspace cover.

Draw and paint a jellyfish using oil pastels or crayons, starting with a big upside-down shape, curved lines, and doubled tentacles, then add eyes and white swirls for water.

Paint the background with aqua blue and blue, sprinkle salt on wet paint to create a bubbly ocean texture, and let it dry to reveal the effect.

Begin this beginner project by drawing a cute sea otter with watercolor, and gather watercolor paper, paints, water, brush, black oil pastel or crayon, and a paper towel.

Learn to draw a sea otter emerging from water using curved lines and simple shapes, with ears, eyes, nose, and whiskers.

Apply watercolor painting to the sea otter drawing by preparing paints with water, choosing blue for water and sky, brown for the otter, and painting carefully to keep clouds white.

Gather watercolor paper, paints, a brush, a cup of clean water, a black crayon or oil pastel, and a paper towel for this Palm Island drawing and watercolor painting project.

Apply watercolor paints to the palm island design, adding water to each pan. Color the leaves green, trunk and coconuts brown, sand tan, ocean blue, and a sunset sky.

Learn to draw a cute polar bear in watercolor, suitable for kids, and gather supplies: watercolor paper, paints, brush, water, black and white pastels or crayons, and a paper towel.

Learn to draw a cute polar bear swimming in a small ocean with waves, icebergs, and falling snowflakes, then transition to painting using black and white oil pastels.

learn to paint polar bear design with watercolor, prepare paints with water, keep the bear and ice white, apply blue shades to water and sky, noting oil pastel snowflakes resist.

Learn to draw a sea turtle with a circle and tail, an upside-down head, flippers, shell details, seaweed, and the ocean top, using oil pastels and starting a watercolor painting.

Introduce a kid-friendly frog on a lilypad watercolor project for beginners, outlining supplies: watercolor paper, paints, brush, water, dark crayon or oil pastel, paper towel, and a mat.

Paint a frog in lighter green, orange toes, white eyes and teeth; pre-wet paints with water, add a green lily pad and blue water, then dry before the background.

Paint the background with orange and yellow, then shade the lily pad green and the water blue, using careful blending near the frog's eyes.

Launch this kid-friendly fish drawing and watercolor project by gathering watercolor paper, paints, brushes, clean water, a paper towel, a mat, dark crayons or oil pastels, no experience required.

Draw three fish using simple loop shapes with oil pastels or crayons, adding gills, scales, eyes, and fins across the top, middle, and bottom.

Paint the background first to guide your fish colors. Dissolve paints with a little water, choose pan or well, and let the background dry five minutes before painting.